James as fantasy fodder makes for tiresome viewing. This is the main thrust of the movie (puns are unavoidable): Christian’s unresolved trauma from his Dickensian past and whether or not Anastasia can help him heal. “Fifty Shades Darker” starts with Christian waking up from a nightmare of the abuse he experienced as a child. These films take themselves extremely seriously, which makes them very easy targets. There's a lot of inadvertently hilarious stuff in "Fifty Shades Darker," directed by James Foley (and he'll be directing the final installment too, "Fifty Shades Freed”), with Johnson and Dornan back as star-crossed lovers Anastasia and Christian, respectively. Did the set decorator put the poster there to add texture? Backstory? Whatever the intent, having "Riddick" loom as the background image in a desperately serious, post-coital conversation was inadvertently hilarious. Looming behind his head on the wall is a gigantic " Riddick" poster. James’ " Fifty Shades of Grey" juggernaut, was a "Chronicles of Riddick" fan? In a scene in "Fifty Shades Darker," the sequel to "Fifty Shades of Grey," Christian ( Jamie Dornan) sits in his childhood bedroom and tentatively opens up to his girlfriend Anastasia ( Dakota Johnson). Who would have guessed that, when he was a boy, Christian Grey, the controlling, sexually sadistic bazillionaire at the center of E.L.
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